The First National Bank of Omaha has bought a PureCell Model 400 fuel cell system for its data centre in Nebraska. The fuel cell provides an additional 400kW to the data centre, which has used fuel cells to generate its own power since 1999.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed for a power generation and energy storage project in Mexico City. The deal between AHIS, a developer and gaming company, and engine makers Scuderi Group sees Scuderi providing five gas-powered Split Cycle Engines for power generation and energy storage at five of its sites in southern Mexico.
The Scuderi Split-Cycle design allows the kinetic energy stored in the form of compressed air to be mixed directly with the energy stored in the fuel creating a more powerful and efficient way of producing electricity. The storage systems uses a unique combustion process that means the compressed air storage tanks require far less space than conventional compressed air energy storage systems. It combines high-pressure compressed air with the kinetic energy of the fuel to create a significant efficiency gain.
According to the agreement, Scuderi Group will build power generation and energy storage units to be installed at five AHIS casinos and, in line with local law, sell electricity back to the grid. Mexican law mandates that any private sources of power generation must sell equal amount to the regional grid. This is the first time Scuderi Group will be generating electricity for the Mexican grid.
Irish renewable energy firm, Gaelectric, has joined forces with Dresser-Rand, a US engineering group to implement compressed air energy storage (CAES) projects across Europe – starting in Northern Ireland.
The initial project will be the most advanced European CAES in Europe comprising 268MW twin power train storage and electricity generation facility that is due for commissioning in 2017. The project is expected to require £300m (US$477m) investment.
Dresser-Rand will project manage as well as overseeing scheduling and technical support services to include front end engineering and design in 2014 at the Larne, County Antrim site.
The compressed air system stores energy in the form of compressed air in caverns created within geological salt layers located typically at depths of between 450m and 850m beneath the Earth’s surface.
Energy is stored by compressing air during periods of low energy demand utilising compressor technology located at ground level. This stored energy is then available for use in subsequent periods of higher energy demand when it can be released and applied in generating power using significantly lower amounts of natural gas to generate peak time electricity.
US-based Demansys Energy has bought a controlling interest of Singapore-based demand response pioneers CPvT Energy Asia.
CPvT brought demand response to Asia with its turnkey programmes that interact with the local utility. Demansys is looking to develop its demand response business in Asia and has acquired CPvT to enter the local demand-side management market.
The combined companies will offer power-intensive companies the equipment to get into frequency regulation and reserve markets using smart grid technology to manage energy assets in real time.
The company will now be called CPvT Demansys Energy Pte Ltd and will be led by CEO Vijay Sirse, who is also chairman and CEO of vTrium Energy and CPvT’s founder.
The gas genset market is set to continue to boom, according to a report by RnRMarketResearch.com. The report suggests the discoveries of gas reserves will power the gas-generator set market to grow from US$3.3bn in 2013 to US$6bn in 2020.
Focusing upon the US, UK, India, Brazil, China and Nigeria, the report suggest North America will have the largest share of the market – 33%, followed by South America – 30% - and Asia-Pacific regions -20%. These large shares are due to shale gas discoveries and the low prices brought by commercial exploitation of the regions.
Another contributing market driver the report identifies is the strict emission regulations that diesel gensets must comply with, which gas-gensets are not affected by.
The report identifies poor gas infrastructure in most countries as a limiting factor to wider use of gensets, because reliable gas supply can be more expensive than diesel.
Socomec’s Critical Power UK division has delivered a series of Masterys BC UPS units to a new Stonehenge visitor centre.
Socomec UPS Masterys BC (15 – 20kVA) offers online double conversion mode with an output factor of 0.9.
Andrew Wilkinson, Regional Managing Director of Socomec, said: “We are on target to complete all works by January 2014 and will be providing maintenance support to ensure that the system is optimised on an ongoing basis.”
The visitor experience centre is due to open in June 2014.
Emerson has released the Trinergy Cube UPS system that is suited to large-scale data centre facilities. It boasts operational efficiency of 98.5% and a high power density up to 370kVA to reduce the total cost of ownership.
The new model is part of the Trinergy series which was the first UPS to combine the three industry standard functioning configurations and select its most efficient operating mode based upon power supply and load conditions.
The Cube can be deployed in different sizes of data centres across EMEA.
The system will be utilised in Emerson’s new data centre planning facility in Bologna, Italy. The complex allows customers to see the logistics of data centre power management and find suitable technical support.
Powerit Solutions, a Seattle-based cleantech company, has released an energy management tool which is the latest version of its demand management cloud product – the Spara Hub.
The latest version has an analytics and reporting application to allow users to make a tailored demand management solution. It works by gathering data from meters to simulate demand and forecast problems of spikes in usage and highlighting load-shifting opportunities for energy saving opportunites.
The diagnostic tool can be used with energy monitoring and reporting platforms or as a stand-alone service. It allows users to compare energy usage from multiple sites to highlight demand visibility.
Powerit CEO, Kevin Klustner said the device draws on real-world demand management experience to give a clear picture of demand and consumption — tailored to energy-intensive businesses — to lower costs.
The Demand Diagnostics offers smart grid connectivity; advanced demand analytics to evaluate energy usage to asses demand management potential; load control simulation to estimate costs and savings; and online access to all energy data.
Cummins Power Generation is supplying 2.4MW of prime power to a camp in the West Qurna Oilfield in Basra that homes 400 employees of Lukoil, a Russian oil producer.
Cummins’ distributor in Iraq, Modern Iraq Company for Trading Agencies (MICTA), has supplied 2.4MW power to the 20 000 square metre site using four C825 D5 enclosed diesel generator sets with QSK23 G3 engines.
As a residential camp air quality and noise levels had to be addressed by way of installation of Power Command PCC3201P control, paralleling, switchgear, low-voltage synchronisation board, fuel tanks and pipes.
This is the second project of its kind MICTA and Cummins have worked on with Lukoil.
Fuel cell developer AFC Energy has joined forces with Air Products, within the former’s Power Up project, to generate and supply electricity using surplus hydrogen produced at a major chemical plant.
Air Products replaces Industrial Chemicals Limited, the Essex-based chemicals manufacturer which had planned to participate in the €6.1m (US$8.2m) EU-backed project. The project will install one of the world’s largest alkaline fuel cell power systems.
As a result of the partnership with Air Products the project will now be sited in Stade, northern Germany, where Air Products operates a major industrial gas processing plant that sources hydrogen from an adjoining major chemicals complex operated by Dow Chemicals.
The Company commenced its work on the Power Up project in April 2013 and remains on track to install the first KORE system in Germany during 2014 that is expected to become operational in the second half subject to local permitting.
AFC will initially install two fuel cell systems in stages with a total 500 kW electrical output.
This first system will be capable of running with 24 cartridges, expected to generate approaching 250kW when it reaches full power.
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